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Gone Bush (WA)

Are you sitting at home in the cold watching "Neighbours"?

Or sitting somewhere like this watching nature flow past:

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Some words and more photos here:

My Report on the Gibb River Road

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Reply By: Hairs & Fysh - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:34

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:34

Nice one,
Thanks for sharing.

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Reply By: Robin Miller - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:34

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:34

Hi Gone Bush

I'm trying to earn more money so I can drive past nature more often !

Love the photo's

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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:36

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:36

Thanks Robin,

the camera is a Sony A55 SLR and takes those panoramas automatically. Just select the function, hold down the button and move the camera from left to right.

It's great.

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Follow Up By: Member - Richard W (NSW) - Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:37

Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:37

Gone Bush,

Thats a pretty good pano.
I'm at home in Sydney through winter for the first time in 5 years. :-(
Like Robin, trying to earn a buck.

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Reply By: Fatso - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:42

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:42

I am sitting in my dingy little office, where a stingy
Ray of sunlight struggles feebly down between the houses tall,
And the foetid air and gritty of the dusty, dirty city
Through the open window floating, spreads its foulness over all.

And in place of lowing cattle, I can hear the fiendish rattle
Of the tramways and the buses making hurry down the street,
And the language uninviting of the gutter children fighting,
Comes fitfully and faintly through the ceaseless tramp of feet.

And the hurrying people daunt me, and their pallid faces haunt me
As they shoulder one another in their rush and nervous haste,
With their eager eyes and greedy, and their stunted forms and weedy,
For townsfolk have no time to grow, they have no time to waste.

And I somehow fancy that I'd like to change with Clancy,
Like to take a turn at droving where the seasons come and go,
While he faced the round eternal of the cashbook and the journal -
But I doubt he'd suit the office, Clancy, of "The Overflow".

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Follow Up By: Fatso - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:46

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:46

That appeared in the Bulliten on the 21st of December 1889.
It hasn't quite lost its relevance yet

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Follow Up By: Shaker - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:18

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 18:18

Have you heard Wallis & Matilda's version of that?

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Follow Up By: Wilko (Parkes NSW) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:40

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:40

Thanks Fatso,

Its why I live in the country and not the septic er I mean city.

Cheers Wilko

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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:58

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 19:58

Just THE most appropriate Follow-Up I've ever read Fatso.

I read it out to our travelling companions; I was choking up....

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Follow Up By: Member - David M (SA) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:46

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:46

Right on Shaker. Only surpassed by the "Man from Ironbark".
Dave in Laverton, looking for a bit of yellow.

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Reply By: Ian & Sue - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:48

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 16:48

Well we are outnof the cold at least!

Didn't sell our block of land as we had hoped so after last years big trip we had to return to work for a while to raise some funds for next years big trip. Fortunately my hubby's skills are in demand and they offered me the chance to tag along back to my old home town! Sure bets fly-in/fly-out and I get out of a cold winter.

Counting down to next year, but still enjoying this one all the same.

Sue

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Reply By: Will 76 Series - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:26

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:26

I have just turned neighbour off and will watch it anymore.
Next year I will be out there!!
Will76

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Reply By: Member - John Baas (WA) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:56

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 20:56

Good to see your enjoying things Stephen, again!!.

Only 16 more sleeps till I'm 'out there' myself.

The Darling River and the Simpson beckon; then onto Alice and back via the Sandy Blight and other desert trk,s to home in Spring and the wildflower season and wreath leschenaultias in the Mid west.

Btw my first trip down the GRR was about 1970 when it was a true epic - I have fond memories of handspearing huge cherabin in the pool under the Lennard River bridge.

Wot a bummer of a life!

Cheers.

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Follow Up By: Member - Rob Mac (QLD) - Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:09

Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:09

Hi John, I remember spending a night in the Durack River crossing on the GRR about 72/72. Dad had me taking the axles out of the 8 ton K700 ford(with 9 tonne of star pickets on) he walked up to Ellenbrae station to get Doug Escott to pull us out with his rubber tyred dozer, by the time he got back I had the axles out and they were not broken (it turned out to be the sliding cog for the two speed diff), we pulled the diff out and chucked it into the back of Doug's 4x4 Bedford cattle truck and with him and his missus in the front and me and Dad on the dog box over the cab headed back to Wyndham to get another diff Dad had in the workshop. I remember seeing baby croc's on the Pentecost crossing in the headlights as we were crossing. Pity I did not carry a camera in those days.
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Follow Up By: Member - John Baas (WA) - Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:33

Thursday, Jul 21, 2011 at 00:33

Hi Rob.

Don't know what happened re the double post.

Yes, it really was different then. The bulldust was amazing in places. You could bury the rig.

And no one to help if you got in trubs. One time we had lunch just off the track in a dry ck bed. Dry that is, until I had a casual look at the Series 2A Landie going down in the quicksand. Just got it out in time. No Maxtrax.

Cheers.

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